OCR on iphone that reads characters not words

[MrCheese]

I have a lot of typed printed text that I need to scan into a computer program. The text is a mixture of words, codes and numbers. It is well formatted into columns.

I’ve downloaded a few apps that perform OCR but they all require a language to be selected and the OCR is doing its best to match the text to English words - I just need it to read in all the characters as accurately as possible so I can then parse them in my program.

Does anyone know of an app that can do this?

[thebraketester]

Have you tried MS Office Lens?

[essayer]

ScanPro will create a PDF with OCR to add in the text